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Philosophy: The Power Of Ideas
ISBN: 9780072876031 | 0072876034
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw Hill (Manual)
Pub. Date: 7/1/2004
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One of the most widely adopted texts in the field, Philosophy: The Power of Ideas offers a topical introduction to philosophy within an overarching historical framework. The goal of the authors is to make philosophy understandable while not oversimplifying the material, showing that philosophy contains powerful ideas that affect the lives of real people.
| Powerful Ideas | |
| What is Philosophy? | |
| Misconceptions about Philosophy | |
| The Tools of Philosophy: Argument and Logic | |
| The Divisions of Philosophy | |
| The Benefits of Philosophy | |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology: Existence and Knowledge | |
| The Pre-Socratics The Milesians | |
| Pythagoras | |
| Heraclitus and Parmenides | ... MORE |
| Empedocles and Anaxagoras | |
| The Atomists | |
| Socrates, Plato Socrates | |
| Plato | |
| Plato, Republic | |
| Plato, Meno | |
| Aristotle What Is It to Be? | |
| Aristotle and the Theory of Forms | |
| Pure Actuality | |
| Essence and Existence | |
| Ten Basic Categories | |
| The Three Souls | |
| Aristotle's Theory of Knowledge | |
| Logic | |
| Aristotle, Metaphysics | |
| Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras Metaphysics in the Roman Empire | |
| The Middle Ages and Aquinas | |
| St. Augustine, Confessions | |
| The Rise of Modern Metaphysics and Epistemology Descartes and Dualism | |
| Hobbes and Materialism | |
| The Alternative Views of Conway, Spinoza, and Leibniz | |
| The Idealism of Locke and Berkeley | |
| René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy | |
| The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries David Hume | |
| Immanuel Kant | |
| The Nineteenth Century | |
| David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding | |
| Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason | |
| Georg Hegel, The Philosophy of History | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer, The World As Will and Representation | |
| The Continental Tradition Existentialism | |
| Two Existentialists | |
| Phenomenology | |
| Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism | |
| Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus | |
| The Pragmatic and Analytic Traditions Pragmatism | |
| Analytic Philosophy | |
| The Philosophy of the Mind | |
| A. J. Ayer, The Elimination of Metaphysics | |
| J. J. C. Smart, Sensations and Brain Processes | |
| Richard Rorty, Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth | |
| Moral And Political Philosophy | |
| Moral Philosophy Skepticism, Relativism, and Subjectivism | |
| Egoism | |
| Hedonism | |
| The Five Main Ethical Frameworks | |
| The Early Greeks | |
| Epicureanism and Stoicism | |
| Christianizing Ethics | |
| Hobbes and Hume | |
| Kant | |
| The Utilitarians | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | |
| Plato, Gorgias | |
| Epicurus, Epicurus to Menoeceus | |
| Epictetus, The Encheiridion | |
| Immanuel Kant, Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals | |
| John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil | |
| Political Philosophy Plato and Aristotle | |
| Natural Law Theory and Contractarian Theory | |
| Two Other Contractarian Theorists | |
| American Constitutional Theory | |
| Classic Liberalism and Marxism | |
| Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan | |
| John Stuart Mill, On Liberty | |
| Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto | |
| Recent Moral and Political Philosophy G. E. Moore | |
| Normative Ethics and Metaethics | |
| Emotivism and Beyond | |
| A Contemporary Liberal | |
| Libertarianism | |
| Communitarian Responses to Rawls | |
| A Contemporary Marxist | |
| "Isms" | |
| James Rachels, Killing and Starving to Death | |
| John Rawls, A Theory of Justice | |
| Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia | |
| Philosophy of Religion: Reason and Faith | |
| Philosophy and Belief in God Two Christian Greats | |
| Mysticism | |
| Seventeenth-Century Perspectives | |
| Eighteenth-Century Perspectives | |
| Nineteenth-Century Perspectives | |
| Twentieth-Century Perspectives | |
| St. Anselm, Proslogion | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theolog | |
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